Unimportance of siloxene in the luminescence of porous silicon

Near‐edge‐ and extended‐x‐ray absorption fine structure measurements, as well as luminescence excitation and emission spectra, were obtained from samples of porous Si and siloxene. Combined, these data establish that, contrary to a recently proposed explanation, siloxene is not generally responsible for the observed room‐temperature luminescence in porous Si.

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